BRS to stage Statewide protests on Feb 1 against SIT notice to KCR

BRS announced Statewide protests on Sunday against the Congress government and SIT over the notice served on party president K. Chandrashekhar Rao in the alleged phone tapping case, calling it politically motivated harassment and vendetta politics

Hyderabad: Coming down heavily on the Congress government, particularly the Special Investigation Team probing the alleged phone tapping case, over the notice served on BRS president and former Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, the BRS has decided to stage demonstrations and conduct rallies across the State on Sunday.

The BRS raised serious objections to the SIT pasting a notice at the BRS chief’s residence in Nandi Nagar on Friday night.

---

Announcing the protest here on Saturday, BRS Deputy Floor Leader Talasani Srinivas Yadav said Chandrashekhar Rao had led the separate Telangana agitation and even undertook a fast unto death for the formation of the State. After the BRS government came to power, he ensured welfare and development for all sections and transformed Telangana into a top-ranking State, he said.

Addressing a press conference here, Srinivas Yadav pointed out that two Ministers had personally met the BRS chief at his official residence in Erravelli. However, the SIT officials deliberately pasted the notice at the Nandi Nagar residence, despite Chandrashekhar Rao assuring full cooperation with the investigation.

He alleged that the Congress government, driven by political motives, was harassing the former Chief Minister. Though Chandrashekhar Rao could have approached the court and obtained a stay, he was cooperating with the police as a law-abiding citizen, Srinivas Yadav said.

“Protesting against the Congress party’s vendetta politics, the BRS will stage demonstrations and conduct rallies across the State on Sunday. People from all sections will participate in these protests in large numbers,” Srinivas Yadav said.

Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council S Madhusudhana Chary described the Congress government’s act of serving a notice to Chandrashekhar Rao as highly objectionable and condemnable. He said the Congress government should remember that apart from being the BRS president, Chandrashekhar Rao was a people’s leader.

With the fear of losing the municipal elections, the Congress party was resorting to cheap diversionary politics, Chary alleged, appealing to people from all sections to participate in the Statewide protests on Sunday.

BRS MLC Dasoju Sravan said the intent of Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and the Telangana Police was clear, making a deliberate attempt to politically humiliate the BRS chief by pasting notices at his residence and denying him his fundamental rights.

“This is arrogance of authority manifested into unlawful governance where the police are reduced to puppets of political vendetta rather than guardians of law,” Sravan said on X.

BRS MLC Shambipur Raju said the BRS cadre would be willing to guide Hyderabad Police Commissioner VC Sajjanar to Chandrashekhar Rao’s residence in Erravelli, if the police were unaware of the address.

“If the SIT officials have any apprehensions in visiting Erravelli, the BRS workers will take them to the BRS chief’s residence,” Shambipur Raju said.